I Am Not Making This Up

You know, this is so silly I would have had to blog it no matter where it had occurred. The fact that it happened in Kentucky (and hence, can be used to get a small dig in at my friends there) is just gravy.

Kentucky lands grant to protect bingo halls from terrorists

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky has been awarded a federal Homeland Security grant aimed at keeping terrorists from using charitable gaming to raise money.

The state Office of Charitable Gaming won the $36,300 grant and will use it to provide five investigators with laptop computers and access to a commercially operated law-enforcement data base, said John Holiday, enforcement director at the Office of Charitable Gaming.

The idea is to keep terrorists from playing bingo or running a charitable game to raise large amounts of cash, Holiday said.

But to some, the idea of protecting bingo halls from terrorists is nonsensical.

“to some”? Implying there are people who can say this with a straight face?

And hey, does this mean that anyone could theoretically “raise large amounts of cash” from running a bingo? I bet some of my poker buddies would be all over running a “beer money bingo”…

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